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there were a few contenders in our school but i'd guess the ultimate winner was a guy in my year ryan

he was a champion boxer and had some of the heaviest hands i've ever seen on a human being, saw him break a guys jaw with one punch over an allegation that said guy had slagged him off, they became firm friends after this incident

and I went to a ridiculously rough school. The first was in the provisional olympic boxing team when he was about 16. We once had a fight playing football (we played for different teams) and it was like punching a wall. He was fucking solid.

This was the story with my school. They were going through some serious transition from skanky state school who took anyone, to opting out, getting rid of all the kids who were trouble and since I've left have become a grammar school.

Was a total shit school who invested fuck all in you unless you benefited the rep of the place, but all the proper hard cases were got rid of by the time I got to about 4th year.

mixed race kid in a very white village. hard as nails. first person in the UK i ever saw wearing a basketball shirt from a US team. would have fitted in well with those ruffians in the opening credits of fresh prince of bel air

Nice lad, actually. He never really got into fights or anything at all - just couldn't be bothered with it. There were others more prone to scrapping and getting in trouble with the police, but this lad would have decked them easily if he'd wanted to. I see him sometimes when I go back to my parents - he'll always ask how my folks are doing and stuff.

Showed up aged about 15 and 13 respectively. Already impossibly huge. Mako was in my year and a few of my classes - gentle giant, but you'd have been a fucking idiot trying to start anything with either him or his brother. No one ever did, of course. I think the PE teachers must have cried with joy when they showed up at our school - provided something of a boost to the rugby team's ambitions.

didnt feel pain, so he used to smash his head through walls and pierce his face with desk stationery for the sake of it.
didnt really know him at school, met him a few times after he'd left and he was a really decent guy. planned to move to america to be a pro wrestler, dunno if he did. unrelatedly, i once stayed in his caravan and there was no toilet or paper, so he ripped the curtain off the window and sent me into the woods

Probably the most inappropriate nickname ever given how fucking horrible he was.

He dropped out of school aged 14 to begin a long career bouncing rough as knackers clubs around the North East. Took on legendary Sunderland FC hooligan Fatty Daniels aged about 16 and although apparently didn't have the better of it, gave an extremely good account of himself. Nobody fucked with him at all after that.

Guy called Russ. He was a proper powerhouse, well into sport and that. I remember watching him demolish some guy down the park in a very one-sided fight.

Subthread: what about people who thought they were proper hard, but weren't? We had loads. Most memorable one was a kid who used to tell people he was going to beat them up after school. Anyway, one of my friends, who wasn't particularly tough just said "ok, let's fight after school" to him. Ended up with my friend grabbing this kid, swinging him round and lobbing him in some stinging nettles. We then walked home.

There were nastier, more aggressive kids who did some horrible shit then and are either dead or in prison now, but it was concerted with them. Doolin was a mostly sound bloke who could not be restrained, even by four or five teachers twice his size, when that switch was flipped.

that was his friend. was thinking about how all the really scary neds in my school were in my sister years. but then that's probably because its people i only heard about but didn't directly know. dont think anyone in my year or younger than me seemed hard.

Not funny haha, obviously. Just a peculiar and tragic state of affairs in that you can see the way some of these kid's futures are irrevocably mapped out for them before they even leave school, to end in tragedy, which is very sad indeed.

Kieren - Foster kid. Did MMA. Went on to be a bodyguard - too hard for being a bouncer, skipped that soft shite and went straight to the deadly serious business. He taught me a lot of stuff.

Toby - Just an all round cunt. Unschooled in anything, just surged on with aggressively mindless brawn. I fought him a couple of times, won both. Hated each other.

The guy whose name I forget - Foster kid, lived on a house boat. Did street-fighting or so he said. Me and him were good friends. Sad I can't remember his name. The sports teacher once called him out for being an orphan living on a boat. Got absolutely destroyed, it was horrible. but almost deserved. What kind of teacher says stuff like that to a child?

Memorable fights:
Some kid called Ryan (yeah) threw a hockey ball straight up into the air in the playground - it landed on this kid Bilal's head. Bilal was an absolute psychopath so spent about 20 minutes storming about trying to find Ryan. Eventually, someone grassed Ryan up and they just battered each other. Ryan won, probably because he kept smacking Bilal in the eye that the hockey ball had smashed into.

Afghan lads vs Black lads:
Mad brawl outside the school. I got CS gassed as I was stood with one of the "Afghan crew". Pro tip: don't rub your fucking eyes. They had batons and cs gas - probably lucky that I didn't see anyone getting stabbed that time. As it was they were both hardcore and just kicked fuck out of each other. One of the Afghan's was called "Smiley" because he had scars on his cheeks where he'd been stabbed/tortured back in Afghanistan.

Erm, yeah, forgetting how rough my school was.
There are five kids that I know of in my year or the year above who have been murdered...